LAMB, CHARLES.

THE TWO RACes of Men,

LONGFELLOW, H. W.

RURAL LIFE IN SWEDEN,

LYTTON, LORD BULWER.

LAST DAYS OF POMPEII,

THE CANDID MAN,
ADMIRATION OF GENIUS,

MANN, HORACE.

CHILDREN AND THEIR EDUCATION,

MATHEWS, WM.

ENGLISH LANGUAGE,

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

CHARLES DICKENS,

WASHINGTON IRVING,

VICTOR HUGO,

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN TAYLOR,

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW,

JOHN RUSKIN,

LORD LYTTON,

OLIVER GOLDSMITH,

RALPH WALDO EMERSON,

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE,

DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON,
EDWARD EVERETT,

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES,

JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND,
WALTER SCOTT,

HARRIET BEECHER STOWE,

HORACE MANN,

DONALD G. MITCHELL,

From the hour of the invention of printing, books, and not kings, were to rule in the world. Weapons forged in the mind, keen-edged, and brighter than a sunbeam, were to supplant the sword and the battle-axe. Books! light-houses built on the sea of time! Books! by whose sorcery the whole pageantry of the world's history mobes in solemn procession before the eyes. From their pages great souls look down in all their grandeur, undimmed by the faults and follies of earthly existence, consecrated by time.

Edwin P. Whipple.